Persona 5 Royal makes the final boss Maruki, a guy who wants to end all suffering by forcing reality to be a utopia using his persona. Honestly this is a big reason as to why I enjoyed Persona 5 vanillas ending better
I finished it a few months ago and that was my read as well.
The guy's own trauma led to him wanting to cure everyone else's trauma. The people caught up in it were genuinely happy and it was only ever shown to be completely real. IIRC, it was never shown to be "evil" like the characters real bodies were trapped somewhere or their loved ones were shadows in disguise. He created an actual utopia, but Joker and Co decided that people need to suffer because it isn't reality as they know it.
I guess thats why I like fire emblem 3 houses since it basically runs 3 timelines where one timeline's deuteragonist become the villain of another timeline, and it's purely a matter of perspective. Of course theres only one correct perspective and that's the black eagle perspective, but hey at least you have the choice to choose to be a theocrat, a monarchist, or a liberal as an alternative to being a feudal revolutionary
I need to play Like a Dragon
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Persona 5 Royal makes the final boss Maruki, a guy who wants to end all suffering by forcing reality to be a utopia using his persona. Honestly this is a big reason as to why I enjoyed Persona 5 vanillas ending better
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I mean, I guess. Theres a debate to be had about the details but the overall message seemed to be "a good world is bad. Suffering makes you strong"
At least that's what I got from it. Maybe I was reading it wrong though.
I finished it a few months ago and that was my read as well.
The guy's own trauma led to him wanting to cure everyone else's trauma. The people caught up in it were genuinely happy and it was only ever shown to be completely real. IIRC, it was never shown to be "evil" like the characters real bodies were trapped somewhere or their loved ones were shadows in disguise. He created an actual utopia, but Joker and Co decided that people need to suffer because it isn't reality as they know it.
I guess thats why I like fire emblem 3 houses since it basically runs 3 timelines where one timeline's deuteragonist become the villain of another timeline, and it's purely a matter of perspective. Of course theres only one correct perspective and that's the black eagle perspective, but hey at least you have the choice to choose to be a theocrat, a monarchist, or a liberal as an alternative to being a feudal revolutionary